To configure the IntelliSense behavior when inserting suggestions in the COBOL editor, click
Tools > Options > Text Editor > Micro Focus COBOL > IntelliSense > Insertion.
You can specify the following options:
Insertion
You can specify whether IntelliSense adds items from the completion lists in insert or in overwrite mode:
- Insert single suggestion automatically
- Check this to automatically insert a suggestion in the code, if it is a single item in the suggestions list.
- Insert selected suggestion when the space bar is pressed
- Check this to automatically insert a suggestion in the code when you press the space bar.
- Add new line on enter at end of fully typed word
- When this is checked, pressing
Enter right after you have fully typed a word creates a new line and moves the cursor to it.
The following settings only apply to native COBOL:
- Case of identifiers
- Specify the case of identifiers that will be inserted in the code:
- As declared - Default. The case of identifiers that IntelliSense inserts is as in their declaration.
- Upper case - IntelliSense inserts identifiers in upper case.
- Lower case - IntelliSense inserts identifiers in lower case.
- Case of reserved words
- Specify the case of reserved words that will be inserted in the code:
- By dialect - Default. IntelliSense inserted reserved words using the case required by the COBOL dialect of the project or
the program.
- Upper case - IntelliSense inserts reserved words in upper case.
- Lower case - IntelliSense inserts reserved words in lower case.
- Copybook path style
- Specify the path style to use when you use IntelliSense to automatically insert copybooks and their paths:
- Portable (inc/defs.coy) - specifies that paths are to use forward slashes, /, for use on both Windows and UNIX machines.
- Windows (inc\defs.coy) - specifies that paths are to use back slash, \, for use on Windows machines.